Another One Bites the Dust

Another weekend gone. Another week closer to returning to work. Boo.

We had a busy but fun weekend. Saturday we spent the morning at my parents' house. Carina got to meet David, the 4 month old who lives next door. It's neat to see what we have to look forward to - bigger smiles and neck control.

Saturday afternoon we went to a party for my cousin's graduation from nursing school. Got to show Carina off to some more family who had yet to meet her. She slept pretty much all day. My family doesn't believe that she's ever awake! She was such a good little traveler and party-goer.

Sunday we made it through Sunday school and Carina was fairly content. We came home and did some house work before heading to Cracker Barrel in York to lunch with my college roomies. It was so nice to see everybody but especially nice to finally meet Celia - my roomate's daughter who is only 4 days older than Carina! Celia is only a pound or two bigger but she looks so much older than Carina and really has amazing neck control (can you see I'm obsessed with baby necks these days?).

My mom and two youngest nieces came to spend the night Sunday. It was nice to have them around Monday. Our phone and internet went out Sunday and we couldn't get them back without getting a new cable modem Monday. Then of course I couldn't get it all to work right so we had no phone or internet for 2 days and I was especially grateful to have the company. Gave me a chance to get out to pick up the cable modem, run to Target and get to the grocery store. Plus mom got plenty of time with Carina. She was so awake and sociable all day (I mean Carina but Mom was too, haha).

We're back to sleeping pretty well. She slept from 10 till 7 for a few days over the weekend but this morning she woke at 4:30. At least she goes back to sleep after a change and a snack.

South of the Border

Yesterday we took Carina on her first interstate trip. We visited Peter's grandma Yoder in Maryland - about 90 minutes away. Overall is was a very successful trip. Carina was well-behaved in the car, as usual. We ate Chick-Fil-A on the way down and Carina ate once we got there. We stayed about 3 hours, fed Carina again and headed home. She was still asleep when we got home so we took her out for a walk in the stroller. After 3 hours in the car and 3 hours of sitting and visiting we all needed to stretch our legs.

This morning Carina was very well-behaved for Sunday school but started kicking up a fuss about 5 minutes into church so we just went home. Our church has a parenting room for fussy babies, nursing mothers, etc. and eventually it will be equipped with AV feed of the service but it isn't quite ready yet. I would have liked to stick around and hear the service in the parenting room but since that's not an option yet I figured I may as well miss the service from home instead of missing it from church, haha.

Tomorrow Carina turns 2 months old! We have our two month pedi appt on Tuesday and we can't wait to see how much she has grown.

Getting Our Greek On

We went to the yearly Greek Festival at the local Greek Orthodox Church this morning with our friends Chris and Michelle. Good food, good music, good fun. We split a chicken oreganato dinner (chicken broiled and basted with a marinade of oil, oregano and tomato sauce) with rice pilaf, green beans & carrots and Greek salad. Yummy! We brought home some loukoumades (golden fried pastry puffs topped with honey syrup and dusted with cinnamon and walnuts) for our small group meeting tomorrow too.

After stuffing ourselves silly we went to Target to buy last minute travel needs and cleaning supplies for the house. We're trying to go green with Method cleaning products. We borrowed huge luggage from Chris and Michelle and started packing today. Exciting! We leave in 5 days. Unbelievable.

We watched "I Am Legend" tonight. Not quite what we expected but very good. Had another nice meal too - homemade meatloaf, smashed potatoes from scratch and mixed veggies. Comfort food, to be sure.

So, other than our countdowns, not much else exciting going on :)